Friday, July 23 at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, FL and live on FITE!!
Tampa, FL (June 30, 2021)--Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, (BKFC), The World's Fastest Growing Sport, presents BKFC-19 headlined by The Rematch: Paige VanZant vs. Rachael Ostovich on Friday, July 23 at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, FL and available on the FITE platform of online, mobile, Smart TV, OTT, Game Controllers and Streaming Devices worldwide. This streaming PPV event is available globally except in the DAC region of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Since their tremendous fight in the UFC two years ago, combat sport fans have long expected a rematch between Paige VanZant and Rachael Ostovich," said Dave Feldman, President of BKFC. "These two beautiful women have shown how tough and skilled they are and each have wanted the rematch to truly settle the score, once and for all."
We've also just added three ‘Platform Showdown' boxing exhibitions featuring some of the most popular music acts and social media influencers in the world. Additionally, we'll also have ten additional bare-knuckle fights on the undercard."
This is our fourth event in the Tampa area and the BKFC faithful have been incredibly supportive at each of our past events. The Expo Hall at the Florida State Fairgrounds is a tremendous venue for BKFC and our Team can't wait to return on Friday, July 23 for one of this year's biggest nights in combat sports."
In one of combat sports most widely viewed fights in 2019, VanZant defeated Ostovich via arm bar submission on January 19, 2019 at UFC Fight Night in Brooklyn, NY.
In the main event at ‘KnuckleMania' on February 5, 2021, VanZant made her highly anticipated BKFC debut, competing valiantly in a very hard-fought decision loss to Britain Hart while Ostovich will be making her bare-knuckle debut against VanZant.
Just added to this already amazing event is a ‘Platform Showdown' featuring three influencer matchups on the main card of BKFC-19 as Tik-Tok, You-Tube and Hip-Hop stars will battle in five-round boxing exhibitions.
Headlining the ‘Platform Showdown', Hip-Hop superstar Blue Face clashes with rival Tik-Tok star Austin Sprinz. Blue Face is celebrating the release of his viral sensation single, ‘Respect My Cryppin' featuring Snoop Dogg, the video for which has been viewed over 14M times on Youtube. Trujillo is among the most popular Tik-Tok stars with over 3M followers.
Also featured on the ‘Platform Showdown', Evil Hero will battle fellow Tik-Tok star Dakota Olave. Additionally, Tik-Tok, You-Tube and social media influencer, DK Moneyy will battle Nick Ireland of the famed Ireland Boys.
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